Crown of Earth and Sky (Secrets of the Faerie Crown, #1)

by Emberly Ash

Light was for cleansing. Night was for debauchery.

All I’d ever wanted, my entire life, was freedom. But I’d gone from one cage to another. From the torture of the water gardens, to the agony of watching those I cared about suffer for my sake.

The darkness tried to consume me. But this time, I looked up and saw the stars.

He’d surely realized what I’d known all along. I was better off dead—for the good of Annwyn.

Didn’t I deserve to keep my secrets? After everything that had been done to me, all that I’d survived… didn’t I deserve to share the layers of myself in my own damn time?

I didn’t have anything to say to him, I reminded myself. Nothing that I wanted to apologize for. I’d lied to protect myself and to protect Annwyn. If Arran couldn’t understand that, then I’d misjudged him from the beginning and it was for the best that the tentative understanding between us had been sundered early on, before it grew into something more dangerous.